Conscription, Us Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland (1914-1918): Divergent Destinies

Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation
Biography of France’s Representatives to Dublin, London and Washington
Introduction
	Echoes of Sarajevo
	Conventional narratives
	Plea for a new historiography of the Irish Revolution
	Diplomatic sources and French narratives
1 Political Crisis, British Intentions and Wartime Uncertainties (January 1913–March 1916)
	Home Rule and Ulster Unionism: the impossible settlement
	War breaks out: Asquith’s strategy, recruitment, and the leap into the unknown
	A distant war: propaganda and the war economy
	Laissez-faire policy and French concerns
	Conclusion
2 Was the Rebellion a Turning Point? (April 1916–October 1916)
	Allegiance and opportunities: US neutrality and the preparation for an insurrection
	Rebellion, reactions and extrapolations?
	Aftermath and executions: the transformation of Ireland?
	Partition: ongoing deadlock and critical solutions
	Procrastination and the end of the old administrative regime
	Conclusion
3 All Changed, Changed Quietly (October 1916–March 1917)
	October 1916 and the threat of conscription
	Opposing conscription, supporting Redmond
	The decline in recruitment
	The North-Roscommon by-election: the twilight of Sinn Féin
	Conclusion
4 Resisting Conscription, Redefining Ireland (March 1917–October 1917)
	March 1917: the Home Rule controversy
	Re-organizing Sinn Féin: towards Árd Fheis
	The South Longford by-election: the men of Easter Week saved your sons from conscription
	Tightening the grip: the East-Clare election
	The Kilkenny by-election
	Árd Fheis: the Sinn Féin Convention in October 1917
	The shifting position of the Roman Catholic clergy
	The growing number of Sinn Féin sympathizers
	Conclusion
5 The Wartime Internationalization of the Irish Question (April 1917–March 1918)
	US intervention: a blow to the separatist movement?
	Colonel House and Ireland
	The April 1917 Irish Convention: a ‘flat failure’39 or a ‘political camouflage’40?
	British procrastination
	From fear of another black ’47 to fear of conscription (January–March 1918)
	Unholy alliances, survival and despair
	The goal of the Peace Conference takes hold
	Conclusion
6 Conscription, Betrayal and the Agony of the Irish Parliamentary Party (April 1918)
	From the Ulster ‘conscription cry’ to the German offensive
	Heated debates and some revelations
	A stab in the back of the dead man: a second execution of dead heroes
	‘The miracle has been performed’87
	Preparing the fight here and abroad
	An unpopular move among the British authorities in Ireland
	Conscription: a counter-Wilsonian move?
	Conclusion
7 Endgame (May 1918–December 1918)
	The German plot
	On the road to victory: summer 1918
	December 1918: the triumph of the Internationalists
	Conclusion
Epilogue
	How the Great War transformed Ireland
	Diverging destinies
	National minorities, post-war order and disillusions
Bibliography
Index